Wednesday, September 10, 2008

What Can We Do For Junk Files in Our System?

Why did our computers always product so many junk files?

Where did the junk files come from?

First, installing software may Fantastic Four temporary files.

Most setup programs will decompress themselves into a temporary folder before running install programs. The folders are commonly in Temp of Windows folder. After installation finished, they should be deleted automatically by the system. However, when the software has some bug or there is some problem in the system, those temporary files will be left in hard disc and become junk suffixed with *. tmp.

Secondly, temporary files were produced while running programs.

The same as installing software, while in the process of running programs, temporary files are produced for exchanging information usually. Some software will leave more than several hundreds M of junk files, such as the backup files suffixed with *. old and *. bak, backup produced by anti-virus and system programs while in checking hard disc, and so on.

Thirdly, files which were left over by removing software.

Because of the operation of Microsoft's uninstall mechanism, furthermore most software had DLL ( Dynamic Link Library ) and some of them with bug, so that make software usually can not be removed completely. Some corrupt files, files suffixed with *. dll and something useless will be leave in hard disc to be exact junk.

Most beginners always remove software through wrong method of deleting folders, in this way, masses of invalid files such as files suffixed with *. ini and *. dll will be left behind. It also make registry fill with invalid and empty keys so that influence stabilization of system.

Fourthly, temporary files produced by browsing website.

While we are login website, the browser may download website files into our computers automatically. These kind of temporary files would be junk if we would not login the website anymore.

Fifthly, some kind of useless files.

Such as some unnecessary help files and tutorial which suffixed with *. Hlp and unwanted lingual files, since they are useless for us, just clear them totally.

So what can we do about these junk files?

Apparently, to clear home refinancing the mesotheleoma junk files manually is impossible. Therefore, we need a tool to help us to do that. I suggest you use Advanced Pc Tweaker 2008, as a functional system optimizing tool, it can clean all the junk files The Prisoner I found it is efficacious after using its free download version. You may have a try.